This week in place of our normal chapel service will be our Nyvall Lectures. All students are encouraged to attend our academic lectures either in person or via live stream.
We still wanted to run a Chapel Corner post this week and feature a Spoken Word piece by Nyisha Haney which was performed in our Easter celebration service last week. It was a beautiful service with many different student voices and artistic elements. You can watch the whole service through our Digital Archives page.
Via Dolorosa
by Nyisha Haney
Por la via dolorosa
Triste dia en Jerusalem just for me,
He drug that tree in grief
Predestined to be a savior for souls
That will never have enough lifetimes to repay
The stripes worn, the piercing thorns, the curses spewed
At the One mocked “King of the Jews”.
Humiliated and hated
Paraded down a dirt road paved for criminals
Yet He was clean, a Divine king.
Burdened by a cup that He had the power to deny
But chose to accept the bittersweet taste of death
To redeem a wretch.
Step by step, breath by breath
Inhale the fate…exhale the hate
Replaying Gethsemane wishing it were Eden
And that this garden was all a dream and
Eve didn’t eat that fruit
Wondering why temptation in paradise
Is harder to resist than in the wilderness?
Meter by meter,
keeping pace with the beat of a heart
Broken on repeat
replaying the betrayals of those who called him Rabbani.
But deeply committed to His great love for you and I
Higher and higher, He climbed the Mount of Olives
To release the abundant oil of Victory
His Crimson blood
Still flowing like rivers of living water
To give us life more abundantly
Por la via dolorosa, down the way of suffering
The high cost paid by Christ
For us to live free.